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J. SOHAPFBR.

TOBAOGO CUTTER.

No. 355,415. Patented Jan. 4. 1887.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. JOHN SCH-AFFER, or KIRKWOOD, MISSOURI.

TOBACCO-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,415, dated January 4, 1887.

Application filed August 16, 1886.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SCHAFFER, of Kirkwood, St. Louis county, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in T0- bacco-Outters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement consists in the combination of parts for effecting the movement of the cutter, substantially as hereinafter set forth and claimed, and as exhibited in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a view in perspective of the improved cutter, the front plate of theconstruo. tion being removed and the parts being as when the cutting-blade is raised; and Fig. 2is a view in perspective of the construction, the blade being down.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The framework of the machine consists, substantially, of the base A and the upright case B. The blade Ois adapted to be worked upward and downward between the legs I) b of the case. A toggle, D, serves to connect the blade with the upper part of the case, the arm (1 of the toggle being pivoted to the case atd and the arm d being jointed at d to the blade.

E represents a link jointed to the togglearms (I and dat e, and at the opposite end to the armfof the crank F, whose shaft f is journaled in the wall I) of the case, and provided without the case with the handle f 2 and within the case with the arm f. This arm does not come immediately against the wall I), but is sufficiently inward therefrom to make room foraparttermed a guide,G,in the form of a bar or plate attached at its lower end to the blade and projecting thence upward, and being slotted at g to enable the part, as theblade is raised and lowered, tomove upward and downward upon the crankshaft f, and thereby serve to direct the movement of the blade, so that it shall workeasily and properly be- Serial No. 211,013. (No model) tween the legs b b of the case, the operation able part of the case B. On releasing thehandle the springs act to lift the blade and to restore the parts in the position of Fig. 1. The

handle is thus kept in a convenient position for use, and the blade isprevented from falling accidentallysomething objectionable in cutting instruments, and especially in the present device, in which the Weight of the crank-handle acts to move the blade suddenly downward.

I claim- 1. In a tObaccocutter, the case B, the blade 0, and guide G, having the slot 9, and attached at its lower end to the blade, combined with the crank-shaft f, the crank-arnifon .the end of this shaft, the link D, attached to the crankarm, and the toggles, substantially as described.

, 2. In a tobacco-cutter, a case having supporting-legs b Z), combined with the blade 0, vertically movable in said legs, the verticallymovable guide G, attached to said blade, and the crank and the toggles, substantially as described. v v

3. In a tobacco-cutter, the combination of the blade normally held up by means of springs and vertically movable between the supporting-legs of the case and a toggle operating said movable blade by means of a shaft rotating in a slotted piece attached to the blade, and link and crank connections between the toggle and shaft,.substantially as described.

- JOHN SGHAFFER.

\Vitnesses:

O. D. MooDY, A. OWEN. 

